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runanga

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English

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Etymology

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From Maori runanga.

Noun

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runanga (plural runangas)

  1. (New Zealand) A traditional Māori assembly or tribal gathering.

Maori

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Etymology

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From runa (“to tie together, to gather”) +‎ -nga.

Noun

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runanga

  1. assembly, council

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “runanga”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 410
  • “runanga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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